Una donna cerca risposta agli interrogativi che la morte della sorella ha lasciato insoluti: perché, senza un motivo apparente, aveva cominciato a detestarla? Perché, pur essendo in tutto più dotata, …
James ha 18 anni e vive a New York. Finita la scuola, lavoricchia nella galleria d'arte della madre, dove non entra mai nessuno: sarebbe arduo, d'altra parte, suscitare clamore intorno a opere di tend…
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming …
In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have los…
The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obse…
Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds
We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the person’s biology,…
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'importe lequel des orphelins qui y trouvent refuge, mais même à travers l'art, on ne peut pas sortir vain…
ISBN 9788433966322 moved to this edition. Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, reci…
